Acting tough against spurt in cases of burglaries in the city, the police busted a gang of burglars by arresting three persons and recovering an auto-rickshaw used in burglaries.
The police also recovered a loaded pistol. The police officials informed that the gang was headed by Taraknath layak, a 29-year-old youth who lived at Bhatia Bustee in Kadma. They used to target residential and commercial area in the city by the auto-rickshaw past midnight and would commit burglary. The other two arrested persons were identified as Mohit Singh and Paresh Kumar, both residents of Shastrinagar, Kadma.
Superintendent of police (city) Karthik S said that on Wednesday they arrested two youths, Mohit and Taraknath, with a loaded pistol near the marine drive along Kadma police station area.
“On being interrogated it was revealed that the same gang had decamped with gold ornaments and brand new truck tyres from the house of transporter Bipin Channa at Ranikudar under Kadma police station area in the night of August 26,” said city SP.
Karthik said during interrogation, they found it was the same gang which had committed burglary at Dulhan Jewers located in Birsanagar Zone No 11 in the night of August 13. The criminals had decamped with gold ornaments worth over `3.75 lakh and also had taken away a vault weighing over 0.5 ton from the jewellery shop.
“We have decided to send the three to jail, but soon we will take them in police remand and probe out exactly where else they committed the burglary,” said Karthik adding that the investigation is on.
East Singhbhum district police has decided to step up night patrolling on the street and residential locality as well as the marketplaces across the city.
The normal evening hours of the Steel City have now literally turned into the vulnerable hours as the rising crime graph has indicated that majority of the crime in the industrial town has taken place in the evening.